Prague Castle & Charles Bridge - Prague, Czechia

This camera is mounted at The Mozart Prague hotel on the east bank of the Vltava river, looking north-west across Charles Bridge towards Prague Castle and St Vitus Cathedral rising above the Malá Strana rooftops. The view takes in one of the most complete and unchanged medieval cityscapes in Europe, with the castle complex, the Baroque dome of St Nicholas Church, and the fourteen stone arches of the bridge all visible in a single frame.

Prague Castle is the largest ancient castle complex in the world by area, covering around 70,000 square metres on the hill above the river. It has served as the seat of Bohemian kings, Holy Roman Emperors, and Czech presidents continuously for over a thousand years, and the skyline it creates above the city has remained largely unchanged since the eighteenth century.

Charles Bridge was built in 1357 on the orders of King Charles IV and remained the only crossing over the Vltava in Prague for over four centuries. The bridge is lined with 30 Baroque statues added between 1683 and 1714, and despite now being pedestrianised it continues to be one of the most walked routes in the city, busy from early morning through to late at night.

Did You Know? The foundation stone of Charles Bridge was laid by King Charles IV at 5:31am on the 9th of July 1357 - a date and time chosen deliberately by the king's astrologers because the numbers form a palindromic sequence: 1-3-5-7-9-7-5-3-1. Charles IV believed the numerical symmetry would give the bridge supernatural strength, and the structure has indeed survived floods, wars, and centuries of use largely intact.

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